Example sentences of "sees [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character . |
| 2 | Eliot sees himself as an orthodox writer , trying to make his audience aware of the need to contribute to their own living tradition . |
| 3 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 4 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 5 | KOONS sees himself as a direct descendant of the Baroque — ‘ Bernini and stuff like that ’ — a florid exuberance in revolt against all elitism , emotional coldness and stuffed shirts . |
| 6 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 7 | ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris . |
| 8 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 9 | There is a certain latter-day Robin Hood quality about Philip Gould , who at 40 sees himself as a ‘ man with a mission ’ . |
| 10 | In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman . |
| 11 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 12 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 13 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 14 | He sees himself as a protector . |
| 15 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid Major Berger sees himself as his own man . |
| 17 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 18 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 19 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 20 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 21 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 22 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 23 | The Economic Policy Institute , born in 1986 , is a bit further left : like the Heritage Foundation , but the other way round , it sees itself as a rebel fighting conventional wisdom . |
| 24 | CAC sees itself as part of the community of East Manchester and this is borne out by the fact that the company is now employing the third generation of workers from local families . |
| 25 | Although GEC has no plans to move into the growing marker for digital applications of GaAs chips the company sees itself as a major player in GaAs wafers for ‘ simple ’ analogue devices . |
| 26 | The Clinton administration , more than any other in memory , sees itself as a ménage of bright young minds out to shake up America . |
| 27 | The city sees itself as Japan 's natural centre of commerce . |
| 28 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 29 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |
| 30 | The budding Academy sees itself as an alternative to established institutions such as Berlin 's Akademie der Künste whose ongoing merger of the West and East branches , beset by political wrangling , has alienated many artists ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.3 ) . |